{"id":254535,"date":"2021-10-06T14:41:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T19:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=254535"},"modified":"2021-10-05T22:25:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T03:25:19","slug":"progressive-pro-life-end-abortion-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/progressive-pro-life-end-abortion-good\/","title":{"rendered":"New progressive pro-life group looks to end abortion for good"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A new progressive group is changing expectations of what it means to be pro-life. The Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, or PAAU, was launched this month by Terrisa Bukovinac, the founder and president of Pro-Life San Francisco and former president of Democrats For Life.<\/p>\n<p>Bukovinac announced the formation of a new progressive anti-abortion group just before the Women&#8217;s March last weekend \u2014 a distinction from the &#8220;pro-life&#8221; label that she told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/249162\/progressive-pro-life-group-holds-first-rally-outside-us-supreme-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Catholic News Agency<\/a> is intentional. PAAU, she explained, is \u201can uprising of grassroots activists\u201d who are \u201clooking to organize blue cities across America\u201d against abortion. \u201cIn more left-leaning circles, sometimes the phrase \u2018pro-life\u2019 has become a little meaningless,&#8221; she said. \u201cThey all consider themselves pro-life and pro-choice,\u201d she said. \u201cI wanted to state very clearly in the name that we are opposed to abortion. We are a single-issue organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F100456189083201%2Fvideos%2F391275405914720%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=560&amp;t=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In another interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/abortion-democrat-progressive-pro-life-protest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a>, Bukovinac said that the Democratic National Committee has become &#8220;radically pro-abortion,&#8221; and does not represent what many Democrats believe. &#8220;The Democratic establishment is completely out of touch with their constituents on the issue of abortion,&#8221; she said, adding that the DNC is trying to silence and stigmatize pro-life liberals, in part by making the issue of abortion into a religious one. Bukonivac argued that secular Americans have always been part of the pro-life movement, and that defending life has nothing to do with religious belief.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The unjust killing of the unborn is a violation of our progressive values of equality, nonviolence and nondiscrimination,&#8217; she said. &#8220;The scientific position is that life begins at conception&#8230; [d]enying the humanity of the unborn is science denial, it is literally anti-progressive. The expansion of rights to those who are marginalized is what progress is all about.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She further pointed out that the abortion industry has a long history of racism tied to it, but that the DNC denies it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the left, we recognize that racism exists in every part of our society. Not only does it exist at Planned Parenthood, but it is the reason this industry exists at all,&#8221; Bukovinac said. &#8220;We cannot dismantle white supremacy without dismantling Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/washpo-dishonestly-downplay-abortion-eugenics-ties\/\">Ignorance or deception? WashPo op-ed tries to downplay undeniable link between abortion and eugenics<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PAAU is different from other pro-life liberal groups because they will focus solely on abortion, as opposed to the full spectrum of pro-life issues. Further, Bukovinac wanted to give a place for people who aren&#8217;t just Democrats, but progressives, who want more government programs that can forward pro-life goals \u2014 and she believes they&#8217;re more likely to be successful. \u201cThe only groups that seem to make any difference to the DNC are progressive groups that operate outside of the establishment politics and force the Democratic Party to become more progressive,\u201d she said, adding that otherwise, \u201cthe DNC is never going to abandon this horrific, unjust relationship that they keep with the abortion-industrial complex.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PAAU had a presence at the Women&#8217;s March, sharply criticizing how progressives have linked themselves with abortion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To be progressive you must step up for the marginalized, but the abortion-industrial complex twists all of that on its head,&#8221; she said in a speech. &#8220;They\u2019ll tell you that to be progressive you must advocate for mass acts of violence against children in the womb, who are utterly incapable of defending themselves. They\u2019ll tell you that to be progressive you must ignore the voices of low income people, who are more anti-abortion than the wealthy, by huge margins.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The group is dedicated to saving preborn lives, with Bukovinac saying, &#8220;We are willing to actually put our bodies in between the oppressor and the oppressed and that will be the nail in the coffin of the abortion industry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new progressive group is changing expectations of what it means to be pro-life. The Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, or PAAU, was launched this month by Terrisa Bukovinac, the founder and president of Pro-Life San Francisco and former president of Democrats For Life. 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